Chief justice defiant on monument

Picked up this story from Technorati. It seems that religious fundamentalism is alive and well in Alabama.

Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore is ignoring a Supreme Court ruling that a religious monument inside a judicial building in Montgomery should be removed.

The Supreme Court ruled that the monument portraying the 10 Commandments be moved out of a public viewing area.

Moore’s response?

He accused U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson, who had ordered the monument to be removed, of placing himself above the law and above God.

Former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes then delivered a fiery speech, saying the efforts of courts and government to stifle religion must end.

This must end, or freedom will end with it, Keyes said. No longer can we tolerate this crime that is being done against our movement for almighty God.

I can see the courts point, separation of Church and State is important, epecially to the US Constitution. I think the expression of religious sentiment is fine, but on a stone monument in a government, no less a judicial, building?